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Section 4: President & Congress Subject: Self Destruction Msg# 1112208
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If my memory serves me well Pilot was a 12 month program and Navigator was a 14 month program. Our wing navigators always said pilots only had to know how to take off, landing was nothing more than a "controlled crash" but they had to know where they were, where they were going and how to get there.
In WWII and Korea bomb dropping was more art than science but in the cold war it was real science. I remember the SAC competitions, the winners could and did damn near hit the bullseye, the not so great had to hit within 500 yards or lose their jobs? |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Via Mather in Sacramento for 10 months for bomb nav school; Stead in Reno for a month of survival school and three months in Merced for B52 upgrade school. Joined the AF in October '61 and joined my first operational assignment in far Northern Maine in April '64. Everything before was school, school, school. About 30 months. It was said that AF Navigator/Bombardiers got more training than any other crew position in the AF. Those were two separate positions in WWII and Korean War aircraft. Left active duty in December '66. Joined the NY Air National Guard three months later. Flew cargo, tanker and rescue aircraft. Later, Chief of Plans and Programs for the NY Air Guard. Retired December 1994. Now you know...the rest of the story. |
